[1] Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it! [2] The LORD is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies. He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter. [3] Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood. [4] All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree. [5] My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed. [6] The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat—the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. [7] And the wild oxen will fall with them, the bull calves and the great bulls. Their land will be drenched with blood, and the dust will be soaked with fat. [8] For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.
